Gnome Keyring! Why? and how to change it!

In a world of having at least 10 different passwords to remember, you gmail password, your hotmail password, you school/work password, your yahoo password, your random passwords, your friends passwords, etc. Suddenly, Gnome Keyring decides to have an uneasily changeable password.

Why do we need a gnome keyring password? I do not get it. Gnome is based on simplicity, ease of use, clarity and all of those very nice high values. Suddenly, Gnome Keyring pops up with "Please enter keyring password"

What if I no longer remember that old password. What if I decided to give my laptop to a friend and changed my password to some easy one they can remember. Well, guess what, they can't access the Internet, because the keyring password is a different story.


Here is how to change your password on ubuntu 9.04

rm ~/.gnome2/keyrings/login.keyring

On earlier versions of ubuntu, follow this http://mexpolk.wordpress.com/2008/02/06/ubuntu-change-default-keyring-password/

ahhhh gnome keyring!!

Boot existing Vista from virtualbox on ubuntu

this is a great tutorial on how to do this http://www.qc4blog.com/?p=483

mpeg2encode on debian/ubuntu

Have ever waited for a lot of time on convert *.jpg output.mpeg and then it told you convert: Delegate failed `"mpeg2encode" "%i" "%o"' .. dahhhh

get mpeg2encode from here http://www.mpeg.org/pub_ftp/mpeg/mssg/mpeg2vidcodec_v12.tar.gz untar, make and you are done!

Disable system beep in linux

remove the module
sudo rmmod pcspkr
then blacklist it


add this to the file /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist
blacklist pcspkr

Done!

some netstat

to show active connections

netstat -nat

to show open ports

netstate -tulp

will have some more of these later!

some vim nice stuff

code completion
Make Vim an IDE
Lots of advanced stuff to know

libf2c.so: undefined reference to `MAIN__'

Alright.. so problems with libf2c with debian, ubuntu, etc, getting too much of libf2c.so: undefined reference to `MAIN__'

ok, just link with the static library "libf2c.a"

sudo rm /usr/lib/libf2c.so && sudo ln -s /usr/lib/libf2c.a /usr/lib/libf2c.so

Done!